The Alabama Coastal Foundation's Connect to Your Coast outreach events are designed to be an easy and fun way that individuals throughout the state can learn how they can help protect our precious coastal environment! Please drop by and invite your friends!
Water is Life: Water/Ways with Alabama Humanities Alliance and Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street As we continue to explore the intersection between water, culture, history, faith, literature and more, we invite you to join us as we talk with the Alabama Humanities Alliance on Tuesday. We'll learn more about the AHA and how they weave [...]
PANIC will hold the first in-person meeting since the emergence of the COVID19 pandemic. It's been over a year since we've held a meeting, and it's time to kick things back in gear. We're tired of being a sacrifice zone. Our demands are clear: Relocation for residents of the 35th Avenue Superfund Site or SHUT [...]
Water is Life: Coal Mining in Alabama with Black Warrior Riverkeeper's Nelson Brooke The epicenter of coal mining's long history in Alabama is the Black Warrior River watershed. Black Warrior Riverkeeper Nelson Brooke will discuss coal mining in the Black Warrior basin and highlight recent pollution issues at Warrior Met Coal's No. 7 Mine in Tuscaloosa County. Click [...]
A monthly series on the major river basins of Alabama featuring Dr. Bill Deutsch, author of Alabama Rivers: A Celebration & Challenge. This Basin Talk will explore the Black Warrior River Basin. June 30 – Basin Banter with Bill – Tallapoosa – Registration Open July 21 – Basin Banter with Bill – Alabama – SAVE THE [...]
FLFR volunteers are creating a Native Garden. Depending on the season join Jennah Gilley and other volunteers to plant, weed, add compost, mulch, pull invasive plants (like Privet and Kudzu) or terrace the slope to prevent erosion with logs and soil. Register at flflr.org
Water is Life: Labor and the Environment with Brett Wallace (artist and filmmaker) and Natasha Zaretsky (University of Alabama at Birmingham) The connection between environmental protection and labor has never been more prevalent than it is today. From the Green New Deal to infrastructure, we are beginning to understand that policy solutions cannot be made [...]
Every month community friendly volunteers are meeting to clean-up 6 sites of the Locust Fork River in Blount County. 9 am Swann Covered Bridge - led by Sam Howell - 1590 Swann Bridge Rd, Cleveland, AL 35049 10 am Little Warrior Low Water Bridge - led by Danya King - 10 am Horton Mill - [...]
Water is Life: On the Alabama Scenic River Trail with Jay Grantland Many may be familiar with hiking on famous trails like the Appalachian Trail our Alabama Pinhoti Trail and maybe you have even heard of "trail angels" that help people along the way, but did you know that there are also river trails and water trail angels? [...]
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CDT Monday, July 12th, and space is limited. For more information and to register, visit https://alaudubon.org/event/2021-07-13/. While this is a free event, please support our work if you are able by making a tax-deductible donation at alaudubon.org/give. Bird banding has been used to study birds as early as the 1600s. Today, [...]